Editing Techniques

Editing Techniques

This week we looked at editing techniques, how they are used, why they are used and what kind of message it sends to the audience.

Here are some examples

Cutting Clips

Eye Line Match - Making eyes synchronous for characters and the audience

Graphic Match - Matching the sounds with the visual stimulus

Graphic match is very important as it prevents the audience from becoming nauseated and uncomfortable, it matches the visual. In this example if the sound was off by even a second the audience would be greatly disturbed as their immersion into the film is ruined.

Jump Cut

A transition from scene to scene

More commonly used in Hollywood films jump cuts get rid of any unnecessary and long parts of a scene, and the keep the audience's attention as to alot of people a long and boring shot would make the audience lose their attention toward the visual. 

Cross Cutting

Cutting between two or more scenes

Cross cutting is useful and important because it can show two different scene, usually with atleast one relation with action to keep the audience focused and interested. The audience feel more powerful because they have unrestricted narratives of the plot and use cross cutting to be able to do this. Cross cutting takes a otherwise boring part of a film and fuses it with an action filled part to keep the audience interested.

Parallel Editing

Continuously cutting between two or more scenes

Parallel editing is used at different times from a scene, unlike cross cutting which hapens at the same time. In this example we can see the living oxymoron that is the main character who is being religious but is also killing his rivals, the audience can get a better grasp of the main character's intentions or true nature

Cutaway

Using a character as a reference to move to another scene

In this example the cutaway is used as a comedy gag to entertain the audience and keep them interested. Without these cutaway gags the audience would probably be alot more bored without these small anecdotes.

Super - Imposition

Placing somebody or something that wasnt in the original take, but post production usually by fans

Super - imposition is used to place people into the film so that people will think that they were in the actual take. This gives an opportunity for fans to feel like they are actually talking to a movie star or anything else.

Visual Effects

Special effects

Lightsabers do not actually exist so they need to be made using visual effects so that the audience can immerse themselves in escape of their normal lives. Without visual effects this scene would have just looked strange as they two men waved around randomly and sporadically

Scripting

Cast List

Media Pitch and Focus Group for our media idea

Week 8 reflective blog post

So far we  have developed our idea  about the psychopath and even wrote a Mckee's narrative structure for it and placed it on the blog. Again our idea may be subject to change where we see fit, for example we decided that we don't want to be cramming in lots and lots of conventions into a two minute opening so we decided to dim it down. The main character is no longer a psychopath and is just a normal depressed teenager who wants to take his own life but gets involved with gangs. We're trying to think of new concepts after we realised how out of tangent that we were. Were experimenting with new ideas and new concepts but only have around 3 solid ideas that are worth solid consideration. We want to make it an actual British Social Realism and not whatever we were trying to make before, we also might take away the theme of suicide from our film as we changed our mind about the main character committing suicide in the narrative.

McKee's "classic Narrative Structure"

Week 7 reflective post

I have made my own group to be making our own film opening and currently we have beach combing for inspiration and soon have to make a blog post about it. We already have a plot line that we want to follow but it is open to change as its not own final idea. The items in the Beach-combing for inspiration may no longer be relevant if we decide to change our idea in a later stage. So far our main character is a psychopath and lives an ordinary school life. We wanted an original idea for our opening sequence and thought this concept would be great for a smash mouth opening

Beachcombing for Inspiration

Beachcombing for Inspiration

Tate Langdon from American Horror Story plays a teenager with a very dark and insane double life while trying to seem like a normal teenager. This is how i want my main character to be like. 

Dexter Morgan from Dexter is also a psychopath

who is cunning and deceptive, more traits I want my main character to carry.

My main characters weapon of choice will be a black pistol which he imagines killing people with in the opening of my film.

My character will use a skateboard to get around it will be used to make the opening calm and serene, for     a short while.

My main character
will also have a puppy that makes him look even more normal and likable to the audience and makes it clear that the main character has a double life.

My main character will live in a council flat to make it 

relate to the British Social Realism theme.

We will also use my school as a filming location because most of it will be set in school as the main character tries to be a normal teenager

The main character's morning routine will consist of grabbing everyday items like this notepad to make it seem normal

For the openings I want this kind of typography to be used to connote it to teenage school life because the main character is in secondary school

I want the credits to appear like this, behind and in front of characters. I want to credits to appear behind the everyday items that my main character will grab so it has a good transition













My main character will wear very casual types of clothes with no real set costume but just normal costume.

The first thing that the audiences will see is my character's

bedroom as that's where a lot of the credits will appear in the begging.

 

Me and my group will use natural lighting as that will probably be the only thing that we will have access to

Me and my group will use an establishing shot of a council estate so that the audience will be able to tell that its a British Social Realism drama

My main character will also use strangling wire as he is a killing psycopath.